Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.